Lessons for the Young Economist
Robert Murphy introduces economic reasoning through worked examples, helping beginners connect specialization, saving, entrepreneurship, and price controls within an Austrian framework.
Articles tagged: austrian-economics
Given Enough Agents
Readable code was never reviewed code; a few thousand sats each month buys an audit of the software guarding your wealth.
Coldcard Rewrote Its Seed Code to Escape the GPL. Users Paid the Price.
Coldcard rewrote shared GPL seed code while restricting competition; the replacement failed catastrophically, proving source visibility falls short of software freedom.
Protocol First, Library Second, Application Third
The zkSNACKs coordinator died because we ran the only one; Wasabi the client survived because that layer was protocol-shaped, not operator-shaped.
The Engineering Choice Between Complicated and Complex
Bitcoin converts a complex monetary problem into a complicated protocol, absorbing irreducible uncertainty into deterministic rules any node operator can verify.
Two Roads to a Network Without Permission: Reticulum and FIPS
Reticulum and FIPS both build permissionless encrypted meshes, but they differ radically in routing, crypto primitives, and their relationship to IP.
Inside Marmot: Six Specs That Make Private Group Messaging Work
Six protocol specs define how the Marmot Protocol delivers fully encrypted group messaging on Nostr without centralized servers or metadata leaks.
Chaining Agents Needs a Spine
Most agent chains fail because they pass work around without narrowing the task, and the Ralph loop forces actual, reliable closure.
The Problem They Said Could Not Be Solved
The builders of the best encrypted messengers declared decentralized group encryption impossible. The Marmot protocol proved them wrong.
The vibes are strong with this one
Shaka reimplements PAI's personal AI architecture from scratch with different tradeoffs, and the fact that the same primitives survived the rewrite says something about the design.
Your Nostr Key Is Your Network Address
FIPS makes your Nostr npub a routable network address, unifying identity across social and infrastructure layers in a single self-sovereign keypair.
The Code Liberation: How AI Makes Software Infinitely Customizable
When AI handles compilation and patching tasks, source-based computing finally escapes the domain of experts, ending decades of binary distribution monopoly.
The Root of Money
Money is neither vice nor virtue but the material expression of human judgment exercised through time. Only parasites hate it.
Your Phone Is Not Your Property (Until You Install GrapheneOS)
Your smartphone surveils you by design. GrapheneOS transforms a Pixel into private hardware you actually control. Here's why it matters and how to do it.
The Reasonably Paranoid's Guide to Qubes OS: Why Isolation Beats Every Patch
Qubes OS assumes all software has bugs and isolates every application in separate virtual machines, containing breaches instead of preventing them.
The Case for Custodial Nostr: Why Teams Should Stop Fighting the Lost War
Organizations already delegate key custody internally. A server-side Nostr client with permission management would be faster, stabler, and more honest than relay-dependent remote signing hacks.
The Universal Principles of Liberty
A voluntary libertarian legal framework built on non-aggression, self-ownership, and property rights, with decentralized arbitration replacing state monopolies on law.
The Protocol Rothbard Would Have Built
Nostr implements Rothbard's anarcho-capitalist vision: cryptographic property rights, voluntary relay markets, and censorship-resistant communication without state-corporate gatekeepers.
The Cypher Wars: Choose Your Weapon Wisely
Use ChaCha20-Poly1305 everywhere without hardware AES. Use AES-256-GCM with AES-NI. Never reuse nonces. Prefer AEAD always.
Nostr-Native Distributed Storage System
The latest iteration of Garland, a privacy-preserving distributed storage system built on Nostr and Blossom, using erasure coding for durability and single-key recovery.